Google Adds New Protections to G Suite
OAKLAND–Google is making a pair of changes to its hosted G Suite Gmail service for enterprises to enhance the security of the service. The most significant change is the addition of hosted S/MIME encryption. This will allow enterprise customers to get the benefits of secure email without having to deal with all of the challenges […]
‘We Need to Embrace the Mundane’ in Security
OAKLAND–The security industry as a whole is really good at identifying interesting new problems and coming up with fancy products to solve them. But there is still a long list of boring, known problems that no one has fixed yet, and those are the ones that need the most attention, experts say. One of those boring problems […]
Google Wants to Encrypt the Web. Now.
OAKLAND–The security engineers at Google have spent years working on improving the security and reliability of Chrome, and it’s had a remarkable effect. They’re not satisfied with just raising the security bar for one browser, though, and now are pushing the rest of the industry and the web community at large to get with the program. […]
Chrome 56 Debuts With Insecure Page Warnings
Google has released a major update to its Chrome browser, which includes fixes for 51 vulnerabilities and marks the end of Flash and the beginning of warnings about pages that send sensitive information over plaintext connections. Chrome 56 has a number of security related upgrades, aside from the patches. The biggest change is that the […]
Google Details Scoring System for Potentially Malicious Apps
Google has introduced a number of different layers of security protection for Android devices recently, many of which are invisible to users. One of those protective measures is a scoring system that looks at how often a specific app has been downloaded and how many devices with the app are still checking in with Google’s […]
Google Releases Project Wycheproof Crypto Test Suite
Google has released a new set of tests it uses to probe cryptographic libraries for vulnerabilities to known attacks. The tests can be used against most kinds of crypto algorithms and the company already has found 40 new weaknesses in existing algorithms. the tests are called Project Wycheproof, and Google’s engineers designed them to help […]
Google Trusted Contacts Allows Users to Share Location in Real Time
Google has spent a lot of time and money on security over the last few years, developing new technologies and systems to protect users’ devices. One of the newer technologies the company has come up with is designed to provide security for users themselves rather than their laptops or phones. On Monday Google launched a new […]
More Than a Million Android Devices Rooted by Gooligan Malware
A new version of an existing piece of malware has emerged in some third-party Android app stores and researchers say it has infected more than a million devices around the world, giving the attackers full access to victims’ Google accounts in the process. The malware campaign is known as Gooligan, and it’s a variant of […]
Google to Label Some Sites as Malicious Repeat Offenders
Google is planning to make life a little more difficult for some site owners who host malware, by adding new warnings to its Safe Browsing system to let users know that the sites are known to repeatedly add and remove malicious content to try and trick Google’s system. The company’s Safe Browsing system is used […]